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Big tech is not inevitable, there is no conveyor belt to enshitification. There is always a choice. Civil servants - politicians - just need to make the right one.

Civil servants like Torgeir Micaelsen, Norway’s minister of digital affairs:

"We do not want a society where people worry about being recorded without their knowledge, photographed or filmed in places and situations where they are accustomed to not being monitored"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/norway-temporary-ban-smart-glasses-public-places

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